Nisus ait: 'dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?'
Nisus said, Do the gods add this heat to the mind,
Euryalus, or does a man's own dire desire become a god to him?
-- Virgil's Aeneid IX, 184-185
(my translation)
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"Kipling for Keith: A Tribute" ........ 1961-2011 (click for the link)
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Tattoo #3
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."
"Oh Malachi Malarkey"
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